How to view group permissions in SharePoint

Have you ever wanted to know all related permissions of a specific group across an entire site collection? There is an easy way to do that in SharePoint, that sometimes goes unnoticed.

When logged in with enough permissions:

  • On the Site Actions menu, click Site settings.
  • Click People and groups, under the Users and Permissions column.
  • On the sidebar, some groups should be listed. If not, click on Groups and then click on the name of a group.
  • In the taskbar on the group's page, click on Settings and then View Group Permissions.
SharePoint Group Settings
SharePoint Group Settings

A dialog will pop up with all the permission assignments that the specific group has in the site collection.

Group Permissions in Site Collection
Group Permissions in Site Collection

Unfortunately there isn't a similar way of checking the same thing for a single user.

Nuno Freitas
Posted by Nuno Freitas on July 8, 2013

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